I love weddings!

My friends Holley and Josh got married tonight. It was beautiful. There were candles everywhere. Of course my oldest thought that meant she was supposed to try to blow every candle out. I had to walk around behind her with a lighter relighting all the ones she blew out. The good news is at a wedding someone always has a lighter. Not sure why, but its true. And if they hadn't? Instead of throwing rice we lit candles and lined the path on their way out of the reception and into the limo. It was very pretty and my little pyro children loved it! Next to the candles? A whole basketful of lighters! They must have known my kids would be the candle blowing champions of 2008!

Me and Holley

At every ER person's wedding we always get a picture of all the guests that are ER employees. This time it was decided that we did not want a posed picture. I'm not sure if it was really what Holley had in mind, but it definitely is different!

Slacker!!!!

Yes, that is me! I've forsaken my blogging this week for other pursuits. Not all fun pursuits I assure you. A lot of working and because of that, some sleeping. Okay a lot of sleeping! Sometimes a girl's just gotta sleep. But tonight, tonight was different. We had family fun night. We decided not to go to the Buford Game because of the weather. Instead we decided to stay home and hang out together. We all ate dinner at the same table; which if you know my girls is a feat. They like to sit at their own table so they can watch TV. It started out they were only allowed to do that when I was at work and somehow it became an every night thing. I'm fighting to take my girls back to the dinner table!

After dinner Andy told the girls we had something really special planned for them. The girls were super excited. Let me interject here that when I first told Hayden we weren't going to the game she was bummed and in such a sweet tone (yeah right) said, "Well what are we going to do instead?" I told her we were going to sit around and stare at each other. This earned me an eye roll and a couple of hrumphs and arm crossing. Back to the story. So Andy has the girls sit on the couch, I sit next to them and he pulls up a chair in front of them. The girls are bouncing up and down with excitement and giggling. He says, "Okay, now everybody.....I want you to stare at the person next to you....(the girls did)....this is what we're doing tonight!" At the same time it hits both girls what he's just said and they yell, "This is all?" Oh it was extremely amusing. Of course it all led to some more eye rolling, arm crossing and hrumphing but it was soooo worth it!! I really don't think Andy and I have laughed that hard in quite some time. I guess some would say that was mean, but sometimes you just gotta remind them to laugh a little. They finally did laugh....honest.

Of course that wasn't all we had planned. We carved jack-o-lantern candles and jack-o-lanterns. The kids drew out the faces themselves, I cut off the top, they scooped out the guts and then I carved where they had drawn. We had the best time and we were warm and dry which would not have been the case had we gone to the game. Of course I was told by Hayden that "what we did was much more fun than sitting staring at each other". See, I told you she found it amusing.

Our Jack-o-Lanter candles. So easy to make! Unless of course you have a broken arm and can barely hold the toothpick!

The Wedding Month

I always thought that June was the wedding month, but I've since realized that October is a HUGE wedding month. Take for example my parents who just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on October 1st. Another example? My friends Kristen and Nathan who just celebrated their first anniversary. Obviously my friends Laura and Holley got the news too because Laura just got married this past Saturday (and is in Jamaica right now; I'm so jealous!) and Holley is getting married this coming up Saturday. Yep, I'm gonna start lobbying now for October to take over as the official wedding month, especially here in Georgia. The air is cooler, you don't sweat as much in all your finery. The fall colors you can use in your wedding. You should have seen the gorgeous dark orange dresses for Laura's bridesmaids! I think October can take it away from June with no problem. Who's with me?!?!?!

It's yellow this time!

Well, Hayden was a little disappointed in her ortho visit today. They did take off her green cast and re-xrayed her arm. But....we had to have another cast put back on. She went with yellow this time and will probably get it off on Halloween night. Poor thing had been complaining that the previous cast was rubbing her on the bony prominence of her wrist and when they took the cast off, I realized it sure was. Her little wrist was all red. He made sure to put extra padding on that area this time. She went with yellow this time so that people could sign her cast in green and "it would be real cool!" She had to keep the green one that everybody had signed (we took out the padding on the inside that had made it stinky!) and Belle got a big kick out of putting that one on her arm. When we left there it looked like both my kids had broken arms! I'm sure there were people in the parking lot thinking that I was probably the best Mom ever! I'll have to take some pics of the new yellow cast (I know you're shocked) and post them. She should look really cute tomorrow in her cheer uniform with this bright sunshine yellow cast! But hey, its still dress code!

Cebuuuuuuuu!

Okay, I have to explain my photo of the day. Hayden used to LOVE the Veggie Tales. They are vegetables that sing and they have videos that give children a good message. That is except for the Silly Songs with Larry. Larry is a bit of a, how shall we put it, well he's a cucumber. You can't really expect too much from a cucumber I guess. Anyway, he would sing these silly songs that were just fun. One of them was about a cebu. You can see the video here. You don't have to watch the whole thing but it will definitely give you an idea of what I'm talking about. We used to sing this one all the time. And sometimes it was just enough to say "Cebuuuuuuuu!" to send Hayden, and eventually Belle, into fits of giggles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQXa9SgrtE

So when we were at the Pumpkin farm and Andy started walking around with the gourds on his head like horns that was all I could think about.

We've got an ortho appointment this afternoon....

so keep your fingers crossed that it goes well. We're praying for no elbow involvement and the words "she will only have to wear the cast another week." Although Hayden is hoping to hear "its a miracle! You're all healed and the cast can come off today!" We shall see.

It's Early Release Today

I can't tell you how much I loved hearing that when I was little. "WHOO HOO, I get to get out early today!" Now I'm more like, "Eek what kind of things can we do to keep the girls from fighting?" Do teacher/parent conferences count? Probably not; but today I do get to either do a Halloween craft or make Rice Krispy treats with the girls and frankly that makes it once again a WHOO HOO kind of day for me!